Hi all!

I hope you all are enjoying the fall weather! Back in Houston, fall is the best season of the year because it is not at 100% humidity like the other 9 months of the year. What can I say… California does have the best weather!

Anyway, I wanted to share with y’all one of the coolest projects that I’ve worked on in my Building Science class: a cardboard chair, made out of solely cardboard… yes, yes, that means no adhesives whatsoever… that holds 200+ pounds! While the process was excruciatingly long and time-consuming, I was so proud of the outcome. The chair was only supposed to hold a max of 150 pounds, but mine held a few more, so that was exciting!

Three models later, I had the perfect design. I separated my design into two different segments: structure and skin. My structure consisted of an “egg crate” which is basically a grid of any shape (in my case, I did rectangles) sliced and inserted into one another, like so…

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It was actually really difficult to insert and slot all the cardboard pieces together because the cuts had to be very precise. Because I made my egg crate too strong, it was difficult to insert. The more and more slotting I did, the more and more force I had to use to push it into place. I wasn’t strong enough (do you even lift, bro? No, I don’t. Probably explains why I couldn’t fit it all into place!), and so on the final piece i accidentally ripped it. BUT I managed to fix it and keep the same design as before just with a very minor tweak. My final product was an egg crate structure with a woven skin.

Enjoying my chair!

 

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